W(TF) Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I haven't been really able to 'get into' BBN. There...I said it. I don't have favorites on WTA at this point, I like all the songs. The 'strongest' songs to me seem to be One Wing and Everlasting, so far. They're very unique. OK, having said the above.... I DO recognize that live Wilco and studio Wilco are very different animals. And I can clearly see how BBN looks like the best platform for a live wigout fest. I really look forward to hearing them play it in July at Lewiston. (and watching my SO's reaction ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bhickman Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 just close to not having enough, imo. I could have heard Jeff screaming for a few more bars at the end. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 oh jesus (christ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tribute2Johnny Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 i likes it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jesusetc84 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I love "Bull Black Nova". It's sort of like Wilco's "Death Valley 69". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
W(TF) Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 It's been a shitty week for me - apart from the leak. My brain is already fried on overload, I'm burned out and I have to work again this weekend. I LIKE BBN, I'm just not in love with it..yet. It's a little frantic. Not even the freakout so much as the speed beat guitar line. At this very moment I'm not much in the mood for nightmares or murder ballads, and this didn't hit me well on first listens like the other angsters did (Radio Cure, Via Chicago). FWIW, I've never gotten much into Marquee Moon, either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Theremin Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Ha, it was only a matter of time before the obvious best song on this album got its own hate-thread. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jules Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 IN YOUR OPINION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gobias Industries Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Bull Black Nova is so edgy that it cut me. There, I said it. It literally cut me, and the wounds are healing. It hurts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Theremin Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I happen to believe that's more or less a fact. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jakobnicholas Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I thought this might be a joke thread after others have been asking if Wilco has lost it's "edge". Now their TOO edgy? Ha. That's funny. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I like that edge has earned a capital E. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
W(TF) Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 I'm not worried about it. Wilco haven't created that many studio masterpieces, but they've taken tons of great songs and made them live classics. I expect that for BBN. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Theremin Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Wth, this is actually the one song that's really fleshed out on this record. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Edie Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I now pretty much subscribe to the theory that this is a musical panic attack. Listen at about the 2:30 mark... the percussion is perfectly OK, then suddenly it begins to go all jangly and out of order, like what happens to one's heartbeat during a panic attack. Then the song keeps building until about the 4:30 mark where it is all confusion and freak out. This song is genius. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jcroach Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I like that edge has earned a capital E. Maybe he thinks that The Edge from U2 now plays in Wilco....................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Maybe he thinks that The Edge from U2 now plays in Wilco....................... If you listen to "Where the Streets Have No Name" backwards it tells you where the wilco loft is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jesusetc84 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I'm not worried about it. Wilco haven't created that many studio masterpieces, but they've taken tons of great songs and made them live classics. I expect that for BBN. WHATTTT!?!!?!?!?! To me Wilco is great live, but I mean come on. 99% of the reason I love Wilco is that their records blow me away. I really don't care about live shows that much. My favorite band is The Beatles who were mediocre live. One of my top 5 artists is David Bowie, who sucked live. Wilco's studio work is amazing. Even if they were a terrible live band, it wouldn't ruin the records for me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimtweedy1977 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I'm not particularly excited about the beginning section of the song. The last couple of minutes with all of the fancy guitar work is worthy of a face melt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
W(TF) Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 WHATTTT!?!!?!?!?! To me Wilco is great live, but I mean come on. 99% of the reason I love Wilco is that their records blow me away. I really don't care about live shows that much. My favorite band is The Beatles who were mediocre live. One of my top 5 artists is David Bowie, who sucked live. Wilco's studio work is amazing. Even if they were a terrible live band, it wouldn't ruin the records for me. I love the albums (all of them). All I meant is there aren't that many Wilco studio tracks that are "definitive" for me, i.e. where a great live version didn't better it. Tie this to my comment on BBN, an interesting song that I think will be a lot more interesting in concert. I'm so misunderstood... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tanner Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I'm going to do some kind of robotic dance to BBN. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jesusetc84 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I love the albums (all of them). All I meant is there aren't that many Wilco studio tracks that are "definitive" for me, i.e. where a great live version didn't better it. Tie this to my comment on BBN, an interesting song that I think will be a lot more interesting in concert. I'm so misunderstood... Ooooooooooooh yeah. A.M., most of Being There, AGIB, and SBS all sound better to me live. If the current lineup rerecorded A.M., I'd probably listen to it like 5 times as much.Summerteeth and YHF I think I tend more towards the studio versions, but still love the live versions. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 My favorite band is The Beatles who were mediocre live.Maybe you're referring to the effects of Beatlemania, which rendered the band deaf to the very sounds they were making. But The Beatles as a live act were far from mediocre. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 It's a song. Mods, Please close thread. Sooie Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SGL Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 I like the song a lot and can't wait to hear it live. I do wish that it was longer with jeff screaming pick up at the end a few more times ala misunderstood... maybe theyll do that live but who knows what they'll cook up for us... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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